I'm trying to add a CD release and there is already one that exists but the information is all off. There is a digital release that has the correct titles, album art, etc. Is there an easy way to copy that information over or should I just delete the existing CD release and recreate it? The existing CD release has no disc ids, etc attached.
That's why I was trying to figure out how to copy the digital info over to the physical release.
Once the mass merge is done I can add the disc id of the second disc.
evelyn
i believe you can just add it now? if that second disc has 11 tracks
PelvicSorcery
Okay, I'll do it in a minute once I finish what I'm working on.
evelyn
even if you rip it now and the tags are a bit funny, you can always just re-tag it later
PelvicSorcery
Ew. :)
evelyn
i think the main thing would be correctly setting the titles according to the style guidelines. if you feel confident enough to do that (essentially set capitalisation, and the remix titles and credits), you can post the result here and we can vote for it / suggest changes
PelvicSorcery
Oh, that reminds me. Someone said the new version of the bandcamp script would automatically copy the album art at original size but that doesn't seem to happen for me.
evelyn I always forget the style guidelines. I keep getting yelled at for that.
evelyn
there's a couple of ways to get the large cover art from bandcamp. if you open the image in a new tab and change the suffix from _10 or _16 to _0, you get the full-sized JPG version (if they upploaded a jpeg)
you can use the image max url extension / userscript / website to get the url of the full sized image too
PelvicSorcery
I just manually save and upload it. But someone told me that the script would do it automatically.
I didn't know if I was using it incorrectly or what.
PelvicSorcery: is "Nosce (Esther Silex & Kotelett Remix)" supposed to be "Nosce (Almost Falling remix)"?
evelyn
or is 2021 a more 'early' date than 2021-07-16?
yes, that must be it. so i ought to workk out the release date of those other records..
PelvicSorcery
reosarevok Yes, that's correct.
reosarevok
Ok, I'll fix the titles (copy the ones from the digital)
And fix the track artists of the digital one
And add remixer relationships instead
PelvicSorcery
Where's my cheer emoji? :)
reosarevok
Should be better now :)
PelvicSorcery
I just added the second disc id.
Can we copy over the album cover as well?
reosarevok
You can reuse it if you're sure it's 100% the same (same proportions etc) for the CD
PelvicSorcery
It's the same picture. Don't know how to check proportions.
reosarevok
Well, if you have a digipak for example then it wouldn't be square :)
PelvicSorcery
It's a standard jewel case.
reosarevok
Then it might be :)
PelvicSorcery
Wait a second. reosarevok You also do whipper, correct?
reosarevok
I don't :)
Someone in the community did IIRC
PelvicSorcery
Oh, darn. I was about to get all excited.
Yes, but I forget who and I'm never online when they are.
I unfortunately have some rare cds that won't rip correctly and I'm not sure if there's a better way to use whipper on them.
I'm tempted to buy one of those cleaning machines but reviews are all over the place.
evelyn
if you've cleaned them with a microfibre cloth, there's no point getting a professional cleaning machine. record shops / shops that sell video games often have a machine that shaves off a layer of the bottom of the disc, to make the disc playable again
you can achieve a similar result with something abrasive like toothpaste, but it can be quite easy to accidentally rub too much and expose the metal substrate
PelvicSorcery
None of the shops anywhere near me offer the machine as a service. There's one that does just a cleaning but that didn't help enough to rip the whole disc.
The discs are playable, but whipper can't get two identical rips from them.
That's why I'm contemplating getting an actual abrasive machine, not just one of the cleaning ones.
kepstin
it's very difficult to destroy a CD using abrasive stuff on the bottom
since the data layer is actually on the top of the disk (right under the label)
making the plastic too thin will affect readability tho
(the drive expects the plastic to bend the light a certain amount)
PelvicSorcery
I just don't want to spend a few hundred to fix twenty cds. Unfortunately, I can't find any place that offers it as a service.
evelyn
is there no-one on e.g. ebay?
rdswift
PelvicSorcery > Wait a second. reosarevok You also do whipper, correct? I think that might be Freso.
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PelvicSorcery
rdswift Yes, I'm pretty sure it was Freso I was thinking about, not reo.
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evelyn
kepstin: yeah, it probably depends on the level of damage, trying to do the whole thing is probably going to lead to it being uneven
It looks pretty cool but I have never really dug in. It seems to be good at pointing out where edits are needed but I already have more than enough edits to do!